Raven And The Children

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Title:     Raven And The Children
Author: Elaine Goodale Eastman [More Titles by Eastman]

Raven was out for a walk and came upon a crowd of children playing with whale's blubber. Huge piles of it lay at their feet, and they were throwing lumps at one another in great glee. He stopped and spoke to them.

"Where did you get all that blubber?" he asked.

"Oh," answered the oldest boy, "we climb up that tall tree you see over yonder and jump down from the topmost limb. As we land, we cry out, 'Be piled up, all my blubber!' and it is so."

Raven immediately climbed the tree and jumped off the highest branch, shouting, "Be piled up, all my blubber!"

Nothing happened except that he struck the ground so hard that he was lame for several days. Meanwhile the children picked up the blubber and ran off, laughing heartily.

[The end]
Elaine Goodale Eastman's short story: Raven And The Children

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